Senior Software Engineer II, CRAFT - Test Platform

We're Cruise, a self-driving service designed for the cities we love.We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work.Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.What You’ll Be Doing• Design and Implement Full-Stack Solutions: Develop and implement comprehensive services and distributed systems, including our expanding suite of operational tools, to enhance our ability to deploy, monitor, and control our fleet of autonomous vehicles. These solutions are critical for increasing the speed and confidence of our deployments, and they carry significant business impact..• Focus: 90% Backend development, 10% or less Frontend development.• Collaborative Execution: Work collaboratively to establish and execute large, multi-team programs. Our team is growing, has a significant impact across the organization/company, and undertakes cross-team and collaborative projects.• Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar by producing best-in-class code, documentation, testing, and monitoring.• Strategic Vision: Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for meaningful improvements.• Product Evolution: Collaborate with product managers to understand and evolve our suite of products to better serve our customers.What You Must Have• Experience: 5+ years of production-level experience building full-stack applications with a significant focus on backend development.• Technical Proficiency: Strong experience in building, shipping, debugging, and operating full-stack web services in a production environment.• Innovative Thinking: Ability to make connections across different technical stacks, design patterns, and development philosophies to come up with novel solutions.• Mentorship: Serve as a role model and mentor, demonstrating good judgment and responsibility.• Broad Knowledge: Expertise in cloud computing platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS), API design and deployment (Real-time, REST, GraphQL), distributed systems, SOA/microservice-based architectures, datastore types and their tradeoffs, compute deployment strategies including serverless, common security vulnerabilities and mitigation, and web frontend development technologies.• Communication Skills: Excellent written communication skills to share ideas, feedback, key decisions, and technical designs with senior engineers, partners, and leadership.• Product Sense: Awareness of the value proposition of the products you are building, with an execution mindset focused on delivering high-value minimalist MVPs (lean product approach).• Passion for Technology: A genuine interest in self-driving technology and its impact on the world.Bonus Points• Experience building large-scale developer productivity tools and workflows.• Proficiency in Golang and TypeScript.• Prior experience in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology.• Experience or interest in machine learning (ML), embedded systems, mobile app development, ROS, or robotics.• Ability to work out of our Bay Area office 2x per week.Why Join Our Team?• Focus on Safety: We're pioneering new safety measures, pushing testing further away from the vehicle and earlier into the development process. Our tools, particularly AV bots, allow synthetic testing without a physical vehicle, unlocking extensive end-to-end testing capabilities.• High Impact Role: Cruise is selectively hiring for critical roles, and this team will play a major role in the future of the company.• Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge technologies including Golang, TypeScript, Temporal, Redis, and GCP Spanner.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with diverse teams across the Product Engineering organization.• Exciting Challenges: Be part of a team that owns fascinating distributed systems and innovative projects.• Dynamic Environment: Join a fairly new team, just over two years old, avoiding legacy code while not starting entirely from scratch.Join us at Cruise and be part of a team that is at the forefront of autonomous vehicle technology, making a significant impact on the future of transportation. Your expertise and passion will drive the next generation of innovations in our operational tools. Apply now to be part of this exciting journey!The salary range for this position is $142,800 - $210,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.Why Cruise?Our Benefits Are Here To Support The Whole You• Competitive salary and benefits• Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D• Subsidized mental health benefits• Paid time off and holidays• Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence• 401(k) Cruise matching program• Fertility benefits• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account• Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account• Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks• Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees• CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy. (Learn more about CruiseFlex).We’re Integrated• Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.We’re Funded• GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, caste, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email HR@getcruise.com.We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. To help us track the effectiveness and inclusivity of our recruiting efforts, please consider answering the following demographic questions. Answering these questions is entirely voluntary. Your answers to these questions will not be shared with the hiring decision makers and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. Instead, Cruise will use this information not only to comply with any government reporting obligations but also to track our progress toward meeting our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging objectives. Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is IllegalIn any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.Candidates applying for roles that operate and remotely operate the AV: Licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding your application, currently holding an active in-state regular driver’s license or equivalent, and no more than one point on driving record. A successful completion of a background check, drug screen and DMV Motor Vehicle Record check is also required.Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Cruise does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.No Application Deadline